Help With CIS Idle Adjustment

[Macel]

... I'd just like to add that he didn't tell me WHAT it was he wanted me to try and adjust for him, just to try and see if I could get it to turn.

And it wasn't me who took a pair of pliers to it and jammed it all the way into the lean stop!!

[jmeany]

Well good news. Robby got it running ! I stayed out of the garage and let him and you folks straighten it out. It is running very rich and what a diferance in the low end RPM wise. Actually threw my head back in the seat. Now to call Chris Musante and have him set it up closer to what it should be. A little correction needs to be adressed here. Robby is right about me turning it all the way to the leaner side of things. (Even though 30 turns from stop to stop was his doing...) It was a good lesson for him. A better lesson for me. Never underestimate what your kids can do.

[Gunter]

30 turns with pliers to a dead stop? Wow!

You dodged a bullet there.
Hope there is no after-effect.

Get a Bentley Repair Manual so you can understand, and treat this '81 better.

The experts recommend to set it rich, I think JW likes 3.5 %

Good luck

[jmeany]

I kinda like where it is at. It now has a "Sweet Spot". But I will take it to a guy in East Windsor CT. that I like Chris Musante.,

[bigchillcar]

good news..and also glad to hear that you'll follow through on baselining the mixture, it's worth it. he'll probably check for proper idle as well and consider the timing, too, both static and dynamic.
ryan

[expernet]

My 1980 SC uses a flat head screwdriver to adjust not an allen wrench as with the model discussed in this thread.

[pete3799]

Originally Posted by expernet

My 1980 SC uses a flat head screwdriver to adjust not an allen wrench as with the model discussed in this thread.

Are you talking about the idle screw (slotted) on the side of the throttle body or the mixture screw (allen wrench) down beside the fuel distributor?